Employment status: Tour guides engaged on "casual as required basis" were not employees

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Carmichael and another v National Power plc [2000] IRLR 43 HL (0 other reports)

In Carmichael and another v National Power plc 18.11.99 House of Lords, the House of Lords holds that two women who
accepted a company's written offer of employment as tour guides "on a casual as
required basis", and then worked as guides on invitation when they were
available and chose to work, were not employees under contracts of employment.
The issue of whether they were or were not employees did not turn exclusively on
the construction of the documents; and even if it had, there was no obligation
on the company to provide casual work or on the women to do it.

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